April 2025 - Inkscape Board of Directors

Funding for OSUOSL, Was: [Hosting] Future of OSL in jeopardy
by Martin Owens 30 Apr '25

30 Apr '25

Dear Board, Please read the attached request for help from our hosting provider OSUOSL. I'm proposing that since Inkscape is in the position to help, we should commit to giving them $20k in a one off amount, and commit to something reasonable for a yearly grant. Since they run our website, this mailing list and email provision for our various services. And have been working on our new matrix chat server. Their support has always been courteous, smart and fast and we've depending on them for a long time. I'm presenting an ambitious proposal, but I believe that getting them over this emergency situation would be in our long term best interest. We have given to them in the past. But I believe this is our time to put our resources behind an important bit of infrastructure. This isn't a vote, we'll do that later. Possibly after next Friday's meeting. Related Social Media post: https://floss.social/@downey/114428216313195235 Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape Developer Meeting 16th April 2025
by Martin Owens 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

Dear Developers, Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Marc, ltlnx, pbs, Jonathan Apologies: Tav Next Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ (earlier) Inkscape Release 1.4.1 is removed because of crashes and we need release 1.4.2. We want to be more courteous to other teams such as documentation and translations so they have some time to prepare themselves. Marc will send out a message to everyone explaining our situation with the plan. Martin explained what happened in 1.4.1 and why it couldn't be released. The splash screen was loading too early causing macOS to crash and causing an error with command line uses as the CLI wasn't read in by the time the splash screen was being loaded. The developer team is basically ready but will give two weeks for other teams to get themselves into position for the point release. this puts the release at the end of April, start of May. The bug Accelerator program met today and there isn't a lot of bugs fixed yet in April as Martin took a break to work on PDF and Tav working on LPE issues. Blog posts for March are available on the website. Willy has been busy doing the documentation project, Inkscape manual. He's modeling it on the Blender manual and the end goal is to have it in the UI interface, not just in the help menu. Jonathan has been organising the GSoC review meeting. The details for the discussion were disclosed but were not added to these minutes as they are confidential. PBS wanted to ask about how exporting symbols. Inkscape for windows is hitting the limit on the number of symbols and so PBS created a branch to experiment. This shows that almost everything can work, except for Plugins which are the under-used C++ based code since the API would need to be available. We could ask the projects using plugins to design what the inkscape symbols API should. Martin has been working on PDF output dealing with Markers and context paints, wrote some more tests and is happy with the test output so far. PBS has some ideas about how it might be possible to make a static version of capypdf, but this would be highly experimental. We talked briefly about cppgir, but the problem is that it takes so long to load; but it's a good API and with gtkmm being not as maintained this might be a good future option. See you all next week! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Vote: Create Steamworks account, authorize Direct Fee
by Jonathan Neuhauser 03 Apr '25

03 Apr '25

Dear Board, == Background == Since quite some time, Krita is available on Steam (https://store.steampowered.com/app/280680/Krita/). They are "selling" Krita there to support the project financially, while clearly stating in the description that everyone can download it for free on their website. Our developer working group member Vaibhav is looking into setting up something similar for Inkscape. For this, we need a Steamworks account. Apart from that, we've received a request for revenue sharing from a game developer who's using Inkscape for their in-game graphics. This also requires a Steamworks account. The onboarding steps for Steamworks are described here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/gettingstarted/onboarding In particular, there is paperwork needed (which we need the SFC for), and there is a one-time 100 USD "Direct Fee" for publishing a product on steam for the first time. This fee will be refunded once the product surpasses 1000 USD in revenue. (This is probably intended to avoid spam publications.) I've briefly brought up the topic with Tracy from the SFC today, and she suggested to go ahead with a vote to encourage a fast processing of the paperwork. ;) == Vote == Sign up for a SteamWorks account and allocate 100 USD for the direct fee. After the paperwork has been done by the SFC, Inkscape will be published on Steam at the discretion of the Developer WG / Release manager. a) Agree b) Disagree c) Other: ____ Best regards Jonathan

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VOTE: Update our trademark terms
by Ted Gould 03 Apr '25

03 Apr '25

Background There have been a few instances brought to the PLC of possible trademark infringements where it was borderline on whether those were violations of the trademark agreement we've posted. One of the biggest issues there was that it wan't clear that the icon was part of the agreement and restrictions on such. These changes attempt to make clear that the icon is also restricted. For reference the full document is available: https://inkscape.org/about/branding/ Action The proposal is to change the points under Section 2.2 from: > In addition, you may use the Marks to refer to products, services, or communities outside of the Inkscape software and Inkscape Project without written permission in the following contexts: > When referring to Inkscape software that is not substantially unmodified, to say that the such software is a "derivative of" or "based on" Inkscape. > When referring to communities of users in the context of their use of the Inkscape software, e.g., virtual communities, community-moderated online forums, consortia of organizational users, etc., provided that the Marks are not used to suggest endorsement of any user community by the Inkscape Project. To the following: > In addition, you may use certain of the Marks to refer to products, services, or communities outside of the Inkscape software and Inkscape Project without written permission in the following contexts: > When referring to Inkscape software that is not substantially unmodified, you may use the term "Inkscape" only (and not any other Mark, such as the Inkscape Logo) to accurately describe the relationship of such software to official Inkscape software, such as to say it is a "derivative of" or "based on" official Inkscape software. > When referring to communities of users in the context of their use of the Inkscape software, e.g., virtual communities, community-moderated online forums, consortia of organizational users, etc., you may use the term "Inkscape," the term "Inkscapers," and the Inkscape Logo, provided that such Marks are not used to suggest endorsement of any user community by the Inkscape Project. Timeline Please post a vote to this list by March 24th, 2025 Votes A. Accept the changes as proposed B. Changes, but also: _________ C. Do not change Thank you for your consideration, Ted

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